This is a fantastic game. Flawed and unpolished, but sparkling with some brilliant ideas.

The combat starts out terrible, but does get a lot better once you've put some points into your weapon of choice (and some cash into upgrades).

Where the game really shines is the story, characters and your interaction with both. Every action you take, what order you tackle missions, which characters like and dislike you: all of these have a big influence on the game.

The best part of the game are the conversations. Similar to Mass Effect in that you are just presented with broad outline responses rather than the exact script, but much better than Mass Effect for 3 reasons: You have 3 different broad approaches (charm, intimidation, professionalism) rather than 2. The implications of any of these options is not clear at the time you are making them, all sorts of decisions can have unintended consequences and different characters can require different approaches. Best of all, you aren't given time to think - the game forces you to make decisions whilst keeping up the conversational flow (i.e. you can't pause to think out what you want to do, you have to think on the fly). This last part makes you really feel involved with the conversations (that aren't full of artificial pauses whilst you decide which button to press), and really invested in them. Seriously, the conversation system in this game is incredibly good.

Unfortunately the game starts out pretty poorly (it takes the RPG dynamic of making you crap at everything until you've invested points in particular skills too far) and the opening set of missions in Saudi Arabia are rather uninspiring (both graphically and in gameplay) and don't offer nearly as much choice as the subsequent missions. The missions after that are much much better on both counts.

This is a fantastic game. Flawed and unpolished, but sparkling with some brilliant ideas.The combat starts out terrible, but does get a lot better once you've put some points into your weapon of choice (and some cash into upgrades).Where the game really shines is the story, characters and your interaction with both. Every action you take, what order you tackle missions, which characters like and dislike you: all of these have a big influence on the game.The best part of the game are the conversations. Similar to Mass Effect in that you are just presented with broad outline responses rather than the exact script, but much better than Mass Effect for 3 reasons: You have 3 different broad approaches (charm, intimidation, professionalism) rather than 2. The implications of any of these options is not clear at the time you are making them, all sorts of decisions can have unintended consequences and different characters can require different approaches. Best of all, you aren't given time to think - the game forces you to make decisions whilst keeping up the conversational flow (i.e. you can't pause to think out what you want to do, you have to think on the fly). This last part makes you really feel involved with the conversations (that aren't full of artificial pauses whilst you decide which button to press), and really invested in them. Seriously, the conversation system in this game is incredibly good.Unfortunately the game starts out pretty poorly (it takes the RPG dynamic of making you crap at everything until you've invested points in particular skills too far) and the opening set of missions in Saudi Arabia are rather uninspiring (both graphically and in gameplay) and don't offer nearly as much choice as the subsequent missions. The missions after that are much much better on both counts.If only the game had had a few more months of development for polish.

I couldn't agree more. I found myself addicted to this game after the first mission. Yes it has some bug's and glitches but tbh I was happy to overlook them because at heart this was a really good idea and engadging game Poorly mis-understood :( Better than half the so called big titles I've played this year.

Its a fair lengh I'd say. Can't remember how long I got out of it but I was playing it for a good while. It also has alot of replayability due to the choices you make in game and if you wana try diffrent roles/classes out.